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Cadaver buried February 7, 1828, and exhumed April 24, 1828
Fly, Woodcut engraving, 1894
Larvae, Woodcut engraving, 1894
Puparia, Woodcut engraving, 1894
Adult Green Blow Fly (Phaenicia sericata)
Adult Greenbottle Fly (Phaenicia coeruleivirdis)
Adult Bluebottle Fly (Calliphora vicina)
Adult Red-Tailed Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis)
Adult Hairy Rove Beetle (Creophilus maxillosus)
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Adult Red-Tailed Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis)
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Upon a View of the Body

Adult Red-Tailed Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis)
Depending upon the depth of burial, female flesh flies may deposite eggs on the substrate above a buried corpse and the larvae will burrow down through the soil to infest the body. Attracted to excrement and carrion.
Division of Entomology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University